BIOS (Operating Systems)

BIOS further on these related pages:

Device Drivers@ Open Firmware

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BIOS Sites:

OpenBIOS: FSF/GNU.org OpenBIOS: FSF/GNU.org: Description, links, contacts. (BIOS) http://www.gnu.org/directory/Software_development/Programs_for_small_specific_development_tasks/openbios.html GBIOS Page GBIOS Page: BIOS for PowerPC based embedded systems; developed, released by AG Electronics; supports PPC 750 (G3), 7400 (G4); AG Electronics TPE4, Motorola Sandpoint. Modular, Ethernet boots. Download, email support. [Open Source, GPL] (BIOS) http://www.agelectronics.co.uk/gbios/ FreeBIOS: SourceForge FreeBIOS: SourceForge: Project page: summary, developers, downloads, news, forum. (BIOS) http://sourceforge.net/projects/freebios/ FreeBIOS FreeBIOS: Project goal: be a central gathering point for BIOS firmware code that can be used to initialize and boot various services. At first, due to the large scope of the project, it will likely only boot a Linux kernel on a few chipsets. Later, it may be a full (BIOS) http://freebios.sourceforge.net/ BIOS Setup Information Guide BIOS Setup Information Guide: How-to guides, general information, upgrades, identifying motherboards, links! (BIOS) http://www.sysopt.com/bios.html The BIOS: Basic Input/Output System The BIOS: Basic Input/Output System: BIOS memory timing, links. (BIOS) http://sysdoc.pair.com/bios.html LinuxBIOS LinuxBIOS: Open source Los Alamos Laboratory project to replace normal BIOS with a little hardware initialization and compressed Linux kernel that boots from power-on, and have OS control a cluster node from power-on. Needs few parts to boot, fast (3 sec.), freedom (BIOS) http://www.linuxbios.org/